Too much context kills AI (but I accidentally built the solution in Notion)

Everyone's been copy-pasting the same stuff into ChatGPT for the past two years.

It was cool at first.

But the shine wore off when people got tired of trying to manage chats and projects and knowledge documents manually inside of Chat GPT. We all realized pretty quickly that the outputs are only as good at the inputs.

And if you give it too much, it basically has a melt down and explodes.

But if you give it too little, it’s virtually useless.

So now everyone’s talking about context. Context, context, context. How do you give AI the right amount of context, when it needs it, to do the things you need it to do, to automate all the boring parts of your day, so you can get more done, more effectively, and spend more time writing, and sitting in the sun, and being human?

Well it turns out I accidentally built the solution, or at least a solution, for it inside Notion over the past three years.

I wasn’t trying to solve any AI problems back then.

I was just trying to organize my own knowledge, my client files, my writing, my offers, my Threads publishing system, etc… all in one place. Well it turns out, that’s the solution for these AI systems too. Now I can open up Claude, ChatGPT, or Notion AI, point it to the exact right corner of my internet, and in just a few words say, “Use X to build Y for my client.”

And it does .

Documents, proposals, artifacts, interactive tools, entire apps that help me and my clients get better results, faster. Which is the real opportunity I see here with AI. People keep thinking it will replace coaches, or knowledge workers, or info products, or even their own writing.

But this is the wrong way to look at it.

Knowledge work is just evolving. It’s evolving into interactive tools. Into apps. Into living knowledge that AI can turn into personal agents for the person on the other side. But none of that is obvious to people when their knowledge is scattered across google docs, apple notes, obsidian files, slack threads, and the back of a napkin somewhere.

Right now the only thing standing in between you and your ideas being magically executed before your eyes in real time is the shape of how you organize your knowledge.

Anyway…

I've been unofficially running people through this over the last 7 days inside my Threads writing system. Winging it a bit, to be honest. The landing page doesn’t do a single bit of justice. But that’s because I didn’t even realize what I was actually creating when I first got started.

But for now, it’s still free, and if you want to dive in early, grab your spot here:

https://influentialwriting.com

Then respond to the welcome email and come hang out in the community. Run yourself through it over the next 7 days, put some content out, see how it feels.

Things are going to get pretty wild in 2026 as AI and knowledge work collide.

If you want to come along, the door's open. If not, no hard feelings.

All the best,

Kevin Hood